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May 15, 2024
Letters
I am dismayed that a police chase on West Cliff Drive resulted in a death. Admittedly I do not know all the circumstances but...
May 15, 2024
The Editor’s Desk
Who can forget their first ride on the Giant Dipper? It’s a rite of passage, a risk of passage for locals and some 2 million tourists a year.
May 15, 2024
Free Will Astrology
ARIES March 21-April 19
Polish-born author Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) didn’t begin to speak English until he was 21 years old. At 25, his writing in...
May 8, 2024
Street Talk
This week, Good Times reporter John Koenig finds Santa Cruzans to get their take on the proposed clocktower center downtown.
May 8, 2024
In Our Happy Place
In March our noteworthy hometown earned a new ranking on a short list of 11 Blue Zone cities in all the US, second only to Boulder, Colorado
May 8, 2024
Free Will Astrology
ARIES March 21-April 19
When my friend Jessalyn first visited Disneyland as a child, she was smitten by its glimmering, unblemished mystery. “It was far...
May 8, 2024
Salinas River Beach State Park Hike
During my brief running phase, I ran in the Santa Cruz to Capitola Wharf to Wharf Race. I was dead last. The guy who...
May 8, 2024
Letters
I found the reactions that were printed about the first Take a Hike column were over the top and clearly triggered individuals.
May 8, 2024
The Editor’s Desk
As I hear stories about people leaving Santa Cruz for more affordable housing, I think about my walk downtown last Friday night....
May 1, 2024
Following the Fall Creek Fish Ladder Trail
There’s a cartoon in the 9/9/22 New Yorker that shows salmon jumping upstream over rocks with leopards, pelicans, crocodiles, raccoons, lions, alligators and wolves...
May 1, 2024
Free Will Astrology
ARIES March 21-April 19
The world’s record for jumping rope in six inches of mud is held by an Aries. Are you surprised? I’m not....
May 1, 2024
The Editor’s Desk
It looked like the new cannabis dispensary at the old Emily’s Bakery site on Mission Street was approved…but all of a sudden there’s been a fear campaign